CIVICUS, a global civil society alliance, calls for the immediate release of five detained Mother Nature Cambodia environmental rights defenders charged with “plotting against the state” and “insulting the King” due to their peaceful environmental advocacy. 

Following the conviction and imprisonment of 10 Cambodian environmental activists for allegedly “plotting” and “insulting the king” under Articles 453 and 437 of Cambodia’s Criminal Code, the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) condemned the convictions for stifling civic space and freedoms of expression and peaceful assembly, and demand the activists' immediate and unconditional release.